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Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Senate GOP to UAW: Drop dead

Organized labor campaigned mightily against Southern Republican senators. So kiss that auto bailout goodbye, because now it's payback time.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Thursday, December 11, 2008 08:31 PM

    Jim

    Why are senators -- according to every news source I've been able to check -- demanding that the UAW CUT Detroit's union wages to BRING THEM DOWN to parity with non-union wages paid in the southern states?

    The auto workers of the foreign transplants aren't unionized.

    That's why the overseas auto companies build plants in the US: they can escape their own unions. They're in the US for the cheap labor.

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